Transport industries

This is an important contribution to the new urban history, describing and analysing one of the best examples of a company town in nineteenth-century Europe.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intersection of urban planning, transportation, technology, and smart city development.

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Bringing together a comparative analysis of the accessibility by public transport of 23 cities spanning four continents, this book provides a "e;hands-on"e; introduction to the evolution, rationale and effectiveness of a new generation of accessibility planning tools that have emerged since the mid-2000s.

The world of the railways weaves a spell over many people.

A Study Guide for the Operator Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) in Road Freight 2020 is a vital study guide that offers the thorough preparation needed to pass the tough CPC exams in the UK.

Tides: A Primer for Deck Officers and Officer of the Watch Exams prepares the reader for the Officer of the Watch and Master/Mate certificates required by all officers on commercial seagoing vessels.

This book, first published in 1975, discusses the development of transport policy in the UK against a background of economic theory.

Regulatory standards are already on the books at the the U.

This book provides an updated, concise summary of forecasting air travel demand methodology.

Knowledge management has been widely applied to various industries as a good strategy to help improve firms' performance.

The story of the company that was founded by the inventor of the snowmobile In 1942, Joseph-Armand Bombardier invented the snowmobile and founded his company to manufacture them.

Applying fundamentals of marketing to commercial passenger air transportation, this textbook puts the emphasis on marketing principles and illustrative ways in which airlines can distinguish themselves within the highly competitive global marketplace.

Ports are a vital part of the global economy, connecting the world through maritime transport networks, promoting international trade, and supporting global economic growth.

We are starting to see the first real progress in space exploration in the private sector, and there are many jobs becoming available in this fascinating new field.

This book offers a novel explanation of the transformation of London's transport from a free market to a public corporation rooted in social and political legitimacy rather than economic rationality.

As UAV technology is rapidly evolving, a pervasive need for a thorough investigation of its full capabilities has come to the forefront.

Safety and Security at Sea is concerned with the safe operation of ships and consequently with preventing errors and oversights.

Cutting through the confusion around the nature and implications of digitalization, this book explores the rise of the new digital networks, how they affect traditional infrastructure, and how they will eventually need to be regulated.

Airlines are competitive and complex businesses and great airlines don't just happen.

Two million people fly commercially every day in the United States, and every single passenger must interact with members of airport security.

This book, first published in 1923, examines the states of Britain's rail network at the cusp of great change.

London Transport was created in 1933 with monopoly powers.

This book belongs to the Port Economics and Global Supply Chain Management strand of the Palgrave Studies in Maritime Economics book series, commissioned by Hercules Haralambides.

This book covers the subjects of break bulk cargo, general cargo and project cargo, and how these cargoes are shipped.

This book addresses comprehensive issues of infrastructure management at the sectoral level in India.

Emissions from mobile sources contribute significantly to air pollution in the United States.

Drone Law and Policy describes the drone industry and its evolution, describing the benefits and risks of its exponential growth.

How does public transport work in an African city under neoliberalism?

First published in 1999, the main feature of this book is its multidisciplinary nature, since the book focuses on the complexity of spatial/ economic networks from several methodological points of view.

Spurred by global macro-economic shifts, commercial and financial turbulence, as well as technological leaps in the early years of the new millennium, the Danish shipping industry has changed dramatically since the turn of the century.

Aerospace is a major world industry.

Over the past two decades, society has been witnessing how technological, political, and societal changes have been transforming individual and collective urban mobility.

Looking back over the past 75 years, there is no doubt that public transportation has played a major role in the development and maturing of Toronto and its metropolitan area.

The seventh of a new, well-received, and highly acclaimed series on critical infrastructure and homeland security, Transportation Protection and Homeland Security is a valuable reference source.

From early 2020 for a period of two years at the end of which  this book was written, air transport suffered unprecedented setbacks due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Interdisciplinary contributors from across Europe and the USA join together in this book to provide a timely overview of the latest theories and policies related to transport networks.

During much of his early career, from 1944 through to the early 1960s, Richard Hardy took hundreds of pictures of life on the railways and the men he knew and worked with on a daily basis, using his trusty Brownie 620 box camera.

The vehicle for hire (VFH) market - broadly comprising taxis, limousines, and app-based transport - has faced multiple and significant changes over the years, with the period since 2010 a time of major upheaval.

First published in 1991, this book offers a thorough examination of the decline of heavy industry in industrialised countries in the West, which focuses on problems in the shipbuilding industry.

Though Cuba was among the first countries in the world to utilize rail transport, the history of its railroads has been little studied.